How To Take Care Of Wife During Pregnency

Expecting a child is one of the most exciting experiences of a married couple's life. It can also be extremely stressful. The physical, hormonal, and emotional changes that come with pregnancy can be quite overwhelming. More than ever, your wife will need your loving support.
As a new father, you are probably overwhelmed with many feelings, but one of the main ones might be helplessness. What is your role in pregnancy? How can you show the mother of your baby that you support her and care about what is happening to her? Consider a few important tips about how to be a good husband to your expectant wife as the two of you experience this challenging, but amazing, time in your life together.

Pregnancy

Pregnancy, also known as gestation or gravidity, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside women. It can occur by sexual intercourse or assisted reproductive technology. It usually lasts around 40 weeks from the last menstrual period and ends childbirth. This is just over nine lunar months and when measured from conception it is about 38 weeks.

Pregnancy is typically divided into three trimesters. This first trimester is from week one through 12 and includes conception. This period of pregnancy carries a high risk of miscarriage. The second trimester is from week 13 to 28. Around the middle of second-trimester movement of a fetus may be felt. At 28 weeks, more than 90% of the babies can survive outside of the uterus if provided high-quality medical care. The third trimester is from week 29 weeks through 40 weeks.

Ways To Take Care Of Pregnant Wife

Following are some of the highly effective ways you can begin to help your partner get through the pregnancy.

• Give Her Massages

Everyone want to be appreciated and loved, especially when someone you love is taking pains in creating a little human being inside of her. Giving massages gently to your pregnant wife relieves pressure and feel her relax. A foot massage can help with swelling and discomfort all over, and a leg and lower back massage will help get the blood moving and lymph system draining.

• Learn about Pregnancy

Make sure to read about pregnancy so that you will be more in tune with her needs and know how to care for your pregnant wife. By doing this, she will feel less alone and as she has a partner who has an understanding of this physically and emotionally demanding time. You can also do this by getting information from right kind of book and asking from a lot of women about their experiences which can give you the better idea on how to care for a pregnant wife.

• Encourage Her

Listen to a women's to your wife concerns If your wife thrilled to be expecting, she may also be scared, nervous or uncertain. Be her sounding board. Encourage her to share her thoughts and feeling with you. She needs to know that you are available to her. Take over some of her domestic responsibilities Offer to do more of the cooking and cleaning for her so she can get some rest.

• Be Affectionate

Lots of women want to feel they are still sexy, even with their changing body. So always tell you wife how beautiful she is and how much you love her. With all of the changes the body undergoes, it is not unusual for a women to feel unattractive and undesirable. One of the most important things you can do to be a good husband is to tell your wife often that you think she is beautiful and you are lucky to have her in your life.

• Dealing With The Morning Sickness

Morning sickness is definitely the worst part of pregnancy Try to learn how to take care for your pregnant wife based on her unique symptoms of sickness, be it headache, feeling of nausea and excessive sleepiness. These symptoms do strike most of women about a month after conception and could last till twelfth to fourteenth week of pregnancy.

• Nutrition

Nutrition during pregnancy is important to ensure healthy growth of the fetus. Nutrition during the pregnancy is different from the non-pregnant state. There are increased energy and essential micronutrient requirement. So make a list and give her hygiene food which contains vitamin D, calcium, zinc, and iron. And always avoid to give unpasteurized dairy and deli meats, which may contains listeria, which can cause neonatal meningitis, still birth and miscarriage.